Ixxxviii PROCEEDINGS. 



THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 



Legislative Council Chamber, Halifax, llth January, 1897. 

 The First Vice-President, MR. McKAY, in the chair. 



The Secretary announced that PROFESSOR E. E. PRINCE, Commis- 

 sioner and General Inspector of Fisheries for Canada, Ottawa, had been 

 elected a Corresponding Member. 



PROFESSOR J. G. MACGREGOR, D. So., presented a paper " On the 

 Relations of the Physical Properties of Solutions to their State of 

 lonization," second part. (See Transactions, p. 219). 



The subject was discussed by PROFESSOR E. MACKAT and MR. J. 

 FORBES. 



FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Provincial Museum, Halifax, 8th February, 1897. 

 The Second Yice-President, DR. MACKAT, in the chair. 



REV. BROTHER PETER, of La Salle Academy, exhibited a number of 

 Dried Plants, which he had collected in the vicinity of Halifax, and 

 made remarks thereon. 



In the absence of the author, a paper entitled, " Measurements of 

 two Beothuk Skulls," by \V. H. PREST, ESQ., was read by the 

 Secretary : 



" Having been asked to give the measurements of two Beothuk 

 skulls taken while at the Museum at St. John's, Newfoundland, I 

 submit the following : 



In order to more fully explain these measurements. I may say that 

 the term brachy-cephalic, or round-headed, is used to denote skull forms 

 where the proportion of the breadth to the length is as 80 and upwards 

 to 100. The term dolicho-cephalic, or long-headed, denotes proportions of 

 from 75 and downward to 100. All intermediate proportions are 

 termed meso-cephahc. 



